: XML has emerged as the industry standard for representing and exchanging data and is already predominant in several applications today. Business, analytic and structered data wil...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
To formulate a meaningful query on semistructured data, such as on the Web, that matches some of the source’s structure, we need first to discover something about how the infor...
Searching for small objects (e.g., logos) in images is a critical yet challenging problem. It becomes more difficult when target objects differ significantly from the query object...
With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...